sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Dec 19, 2014 19:05:13 GMT
Max had a complete coating of mud and muddy slush on his undercarriage yesterday. I bathed him and locked the dog door. He was highly offended when I took him out on a leash later to pee. Refused to produce. He has a bladder of steel.
He's really spoiled and accustomed to coming and going as he pleases.
Do you try to restrict your dog door comings-and-goings when it's inclement weather?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 19:10:46 GMT
Our doggy door comes into a screened porch with cement floors. So we just dry him off out there. There have only been 2 times we have blocked the door and been on the porch -- once in very bad thunderstorms and then another time when the deer were going past. But the rest of the time, our doggie is an inside dog and barks when he wants out and back in. We keep old towels near each door so we can dry him off....
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Dec 19, 2014 19:11:54 GMT
Max trots across a cement patio before entering the house, but it doesn't knock off hard-core, wet mud.
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Post by sisterbdsq on Dec 19, 2014 19:20:13 GMT
I have thisNo dog door, but three dogs in and out use this. and some mat I got from Costco, but the name escapes me.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Dec 19, 2014 19:22:46 GMT
I confine him to the kitchen which can be easily mopped. He doesn't really get muddy, but he comes in very wet. He is used to being locked in at night though, and I do lock him in when it is raining hard.
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Post by georgiapea on Dec 19, 2014 19:23:37 GMT
Is the dog door in the kitchen? Ours was in the laundry room so it was easy to just keep the door to the laundry room closed. Can you close off your kitchen if that's where the dog door is?
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Dec 19, 2014 19:29:59 GMT
Is the dog door in the kitchen? Ours was in the laundry room so it was easy to just keep the door to the laundry room closed. Can you close off your kitchen if that's where the dog door is? Yes, it's in the kitchen. But he was SO MUDDY this last time, that he needed a bath. Not just wet, or a few mudballs on his feet. I wouldn't have wanted him even in the kitchen, locked up. It was bad. |
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Dec 19, 2014 19:31:25 GMT
I have thisNo dog door, but three dogs in and out use this. and some mat I got from Costco, but the name escapes me. I put that in my cart, thanks! I am concerned that it looks like the right texture that Max would drag it out into the yard. He likes fluffy things. |
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Post by sisterbdsq on Dec 19, 2014 20:15:34 GMT
I have thisNo dog door, but three dogs in and out use this. and some mat I got from Costco, but the name escapes me. I put that in my cart, thanks! I am concerned that it looks like the right texture that Max would drag it out into the yard. He likes fluffy things. Seamus has one in his crate, he thinks it's comfy! |
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Post by brandy327 on Dec 19, 2014 20:50:39 GMT
I have thisNo dog door, but three dogs in and out use this. and some mat I got from Costco, but the name escapes me. I put that in my cart, thanks! I am concerned that it looks like the right texture that Max would drag it out into the yard. He likes fluffy things. I was just looking at it and said the same thing! My dumb, but super adorable, 6 month old puppy has been known to drag his bed outside!  |
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Post by tobybaby1 on Dec 19, 2014 21:08:46 GMT
Max had a complete coating of mud and muddy slush on his undercarriage yesterday. I bathed him and locked the dog door. He was highly offended when I took him out on a leash later to pee. Refused to produce. He has a bladder of steel. He's really spoiled and accustomed to coming and going as he pleases. Do you try to restrict your dog door comings-and-goings when it's inclement weather? We don't have a doggie door and I've always wondered how stuff like this was prevented, but I just wanted to say this whole post above really made me LOL. I feel your pain though, as we too have a super spoiled dog. |
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Post by littlemama on Dec 19, 2014 21:18:47 GMT
Totally unrelated, but how is it that critters don't come in through the dog door?
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Post by georgiapea on Dec 19, 2014 21:31:00 GMT
I have a coon hound that's terrified of water. Turn on the kitchen sink - she's outa there! Run a bath and she starts shaking even if it's not for her. I have to use baby wipes to clean her up. I took her to a groomer for a bath once and they called that they couldn't do it.
Does Max go in and out during the day when you're at work? What if he had a large dog crate pushed up against the dog door? He could go out in the yard and come back into the warm house but still be in a crate. Max is little (I think) and they make crates big enough he wouldn't feel all that confined.
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Post by calgal08 on Dec 19, 2014 21:35:05 GMT
In rainy weather I keep a couple of big towels at the front door. Whenever I walk the dogs they get completely toweled off before they're allowed in the house (it's not unusual for them to be mud up to their chests. As for potty duty, they both hate the rain with a passion, they usually run outside, quickly pee in the drive then run back inside.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 21:36:29 GMT
Ugh, I hate the mud. We just keep towels by the doors and rub off as much as we can. She's 65 lbs and has a ton of fur. If I bathed her every time she got muddy... I'd never have time to do anything else, LOL. To add insult to injury, she's white.
She LOVES bad weather (except for thunderstorms). The snowier and wetter, the happier she is.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 20, 2014 6:09:32 GMT
We had a dog door at our last house and it was mostly great that the dogs could go out and back in again at will. It was in the screen door to the porch though so if I didn't want them tracking stuff in I would close the door to the house and they would be stuck there until I let them in. They still tracked in plenty of mud, water, snow, etc. but that house had very little carpeting so the floor could be wiped up pretty quickly. There's no dog door in this house and I do kind of miss it, especially when I have to run up and down the stairs a million times a day to open the door for them going out or wanting to come back in which seems like it's about every 20 minutes all day long!
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Dec 22, 2014 1:16:21 GMT
Totally unrelated, but how is it that critters don't come in through the dog door? The fence around the yard must discourage them. I guess we've been lucky that a squirrel hasn't gotten confused and come in. Max *has* brought in a couple of dead birds though. |
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Dec 22, 2014 1:19:26 GMT
Does Max go in and out during the day when you're at work? What if he had a large dog crate pushed up against the dog door? He could go out in the yard and come back into the warm house but still be in a crate. Max is little (I think) and they make crates big enough he wouldn't feel all that confined. I could do that! He (and Mabel, the Dachshund) *do* have freedom to go in and out except at night, when we lock up. My latest solution is just to keep them confined to the kitchen until I feel like washing his feet. Towels alone aren't doing the trick-- he needs his feet submerged and washed, changing the water several times, before all the the mud balls let go. |
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Post by kristalina on Dec 22, 2014 2:38:54 GMT
We are having a lot of rain right now so our dog and cat are wet when they come in but they enter through the kitchen onto a towel so they don't usually get anything wet. We don't have mud in the back, just have a patio and grass so they're not muddy when they come in.
If this is a winter-long problem (the mud), I would look into some of that plastic net (usually orange) temporary fencing to enclose their roaming area to the patio and not allow them to get into the mud whenever they want.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 2:41:34 GMT
link. We have this, great for feet, not so much for under carriage. We also have the mat BDSQ posted. Annette
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Dec 22, 2014 3:03:43 GMT
link. We have this, great for feet, not so much for under carriage. We also have the mat BDSQ posted. Annette Why, that's a near-genius invention! Thanks for the link! I had an adventure a while ago with MaxTheBeagle straddling the divided sink in the kitchen while I worked on his feet. kristalina , your response reminded me of the sad state of my back yard. Lots of trees, hard to keep a good crop of grass in some spots. That would go a long way to limiting the mud. |
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Post by yoursweetwhimsy on Dec 22, 2014 5:06:47 GMT
We are having the same problem. We have been spreading hay in the muddy spots trying to alleviate the problem but it's still been a muddy mess. I posted on the Pyrex thread about my experience with the dog bringing a dead bird in the doggy door. It has actually happened several times over the years. So gross.
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